Disposability

[micheinnz]

Just went to see if I could fix the oil column heater in the front room, which doesn't heat up any more

Comments

[randomdreams]

If it's anything like the oil heaters I've dealt with, any disassembly breaks the seals and then it leaks oil forever afterwards.

Bah.

[morbid_curious]

I would very much like people to build more longer-life, repair- or recycle-friendly products. Sadly, profit is king for now.

[martial_lore]

*this*. I hate having to throw things away, because there isn't a more responsible way of disposing of them available.

[cymrullewes]

Oil column? Is that like a radiator filled with oil and an electrical element that heats it?

We have one of those. The casters on the bottom broke off and Alaric fixed them back with a weld.

[epi_lj]

I run into this sort of thing at work all the time -- things that run into simple failures that should be easy to fix, except I'd have to pretty much destroy the object to get to the parts that I need to access in order to do it. (And yeah, it's extremely frustrating.)